COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A lively Danish TV show about a man with infinite pencil power has shared ideas among Danish parents and politicians.
The show, “John Dillermand” – largely translated as ‘John Pee-Pee’ – has been DR’s state broadcaster since late December. The show features a lively clay man in a red and white striped dress with an accessible pencil – sometimes helpful, sometimes out of control, but full of clothes.
Even in the famous Denmark, not everyone is happy.
Some Danes have taken to social media, saying it is “disgraceful” and “substandard” for a show aimed at children aged 4 to 8.
“Am I the only one who finds it difficult that children should have fun watching adult punishments on DR?,” Morten Messerschmidt, a lawyer for the Danish People’s Party, wrote on Twitter.
Author Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen asked if the show was “really the message we want to send to children, at a time when we are in the middle of a big #metoo wave? ”
Others said it was “funny” and “harmless”.
In the TV show, the penis is caught in a bus door, held on balloons while the character flies up in the air, and used both as a helicopter rotor and as a whip to catch a lion.
DR said the show aims to identify children’s curiosity about their bodies, including the parts they may have embarrassed, with having an adult child with an abnormal body as the main character.
“Toddlers like to be naked and explore. They play doctor’s games, check each other and are fond of bad words, ”Margrethe Bruun Hansen, a child psychologist in making the show, told DR.
Reciting with Tim Barsoe; Edited by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Rosalba O’Brien